Human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ) is a retrovirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ( AIDS , a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections).
Keeping at arm's length won't protect you from catching an infectious disease, according to new research by Queensland University of Technology which reveals airborne viruses can spread far and wide.
The next mosquito-borne illness in the United States may be chikungunya ("chicken-GUN-ya") and despite its odd name the viral disease is no laughing matter, University of Florida experts say.
Australian scientists have helped discover a new virus as they sought to unravel the mystery deaths of three organ transplant recipients.
Indonesia insisted Tuesday that it only will resume sharing bird flu virus samples with the World Health Organization if the body stops providing them to commercial vaccine makers.
China has detained six men in their 20s for writing or profiting from a computer virus dubbed the "joss-stick burning panda" which has infected over a million PCs in the country, local media said on Wednesday.
Computer virus writers attacked thousands of computers on Friday using an unusually topical email citing raging European storms, a security company said.
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UK scientists are preparing to begin trials to develop a new way of fighting cancer using viruses that cause colds.
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A team of researchers from the University of Montreal and the Centre hospitalier de l'University de Montreal (CHUM) have announced an important breakthrough in fighting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). For the first time, scientists have identified a defect in the immune response to HIV and found a way to correct the flaw.
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"Consumer Reports recently conducted one of the most thorough tests ever of antivirus programs. But to really put these security programs through the paces, the magazine hired a firm to create 5,500 new viruses, using them to test the antivirus software products for their ability to detect unexpected threats."
Researchers are launching a project to discover how certain people, dubbed “elite controllers”, are successfully able to fend off the HIV virus without using drugs.
Inhaling antiviral proteins could prevent severe attacks caused by the common cold.
The People's Daily said a government department estimated 75% of computers in China were the target of viruses between May 2005 to May 2006
The sometimes deadly disease infected its first Utahns weeks earlier than last season, which was the state's worst brush with West Nile to date, with 52 human cases and one death. State health officials so far this year have reported 18 human cases compared with just three for the same time last year.
Interesting article on Morgellons - causes, treatments, theories - very helpful.
Consumer reports' latest "State of the Net" survey has revealed that US punters lost more than $8 billion over the last two years to viruses, spyware and con tricks.
A sixteen year old boy and girl have been added to the list of deaths from bird flu in Indonesia raising the country's toll to the highest for any nation: 44 deaths. Indonesian officials are largely unwilling or unable to initiate a widespread cull of sick poultry lacking the funds to compensate farmers.
Five Northern California blood donors have tested positive for West Nile virus.
Researchers who combined a human flu virus with the H5N1 bird flu virus say that none of the hybrid viruses produced were capable of triggering a pandemic.
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